I read the latest mainstream articles assaulting parental rights so you don't have to.

The media is lighting the match that will set fire to the biological family.

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Socialism Saturday is a stream that I do on my channel on Saturdays at 6pm eastern time where we watch real socialist content, the furthest left of the far left, to learn about what they believe.

A topic we have returned to over and over again is abolishing the biological family.

This is a real idea: There are socialists on the far left who are actively crusading to abolish the biological family under the premise that the family is private property, and they want to abolish all private property. Instead, they would prefer all children to be born via surrogacy. And they work at major Ivy League universities.

Check out this article to see the receipts:

There’s a bill in California right now called AB655 that would effectively terminate the parental rights of parents at age 12.

Here’s how it would work: The bill would give a mental health professional (like a school psychologist) the ability to decide if a 12-year-old can be removed from their home and placed in a state-funded group home without the parent being informed.

Certainly, we can acknowledge that there are some situations where this may be necessary. For instance, if a child is being physically abused, it would be necessary to remove them from the home without informing the parents. That makes sense.

However, I’m worried that the way a law like this is implemented will move beyond this very narrow scope.

The law builds on a 2010 bill that was signed into law by Arnold Schwarzenegger, which allowed children to receive mental health care without their parents knowledge beginning at age 12, if the mental health provider determined it was best not to involve the parents.

The Center for American Progress (far lefty think tank) celebrated that 2010 law as “a useful model for state or federal legislation to address mental illness among LGBT youth.”

Here’s my question: Does it really seem out of the realm of possibility that this law would be used to allow the school psychologist to remove children from their homes beginning at age 12 if that child’s parents don’t want to allow them to begin a medical transition to a different gender?

The obvious answer is no. That is exactly what it will be used for.

They’re mounting an assault on parental rights.

The reason I bring all of this up is that the woke left is mounting a direct assault on parental rights.

A few weeks ago, some of the brightest legal minds in the country met at the University of Connecticut for a Symposium about if parental rights are in the best interest of the child. See the full agenda for the conference here.

That’s bad enough, but in the last few weeks, there has been a rash of articles with a direct attack on parental rights in the following publications:

• New York Magazine

• The Washington Post

• CNN

• The New York Times

When you see a trend in the media, it’s there for a reason.

Parental rights are the ballgame, folks. If we lose, we may as well enjoy the long, slow descent into the Marxist utopia of the far-left’s dreams.

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